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BALLURE,
TAYINLOAN,
ARGYLLSHIRE.
Aug. 30. 1924.
My dear Buchan,
I have been reading "The Three
Hostages". On page 63 I read
Sandy Arbuthnot's absurd
speech to the 'men of Kilclavers'
and the words "will you
have celibacy practised in the
public street?". These happen to be
the very words used of me by
a correspondent in the local
press when I went to
Parliament - " he is not
ashamed to practise celibacy
openly in the public streets."
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Has it ever struck you, Dick, that ecclesiastical language has a most sinister sound? I knew some of the words, though not their meaning, but I knew that my audience would be just as ignorant. So I had a magnificent peroration. 'Will you men of Kilclavers,' I asked, 'endure to see a chasuble set up in your market-place? Will you have your daughters sold into simony? Will you have celibacy practised in the public streets?' Gad, I had them all on their feet bellowing 'Never!'"
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